Editorials

This isn’t a driver license application or a request for tax enterprise zone fees or anything close to usual. It’s a man’s life and the life of his family subjected to justice more typically doled out in Iran or China. It’s only a lame excuse that this has taken so long, and not a very good one. The Constitution empowers Hickenlooper to end Lima-Marin’s sentence now

We are out of money. We are out of time. And the majority of Colorado taxpayers are out of patience. So what’s the problem? Legislators have refused to raise taxes despite the clear, overwhelming and unrelenting evidence that the state simply does not have enough money to provide all the services we all demand

Half a spreadsheet with Colorado government records open to public scrutiny is far better than none. State lawmakers are, finally, closer than ever to passing a measure that would modernize Colorado’s treasured open records laws, saving taxpayers money and saving time and money for those who want information from their state and local government that […]

It’s vital that city lawmakers take in a wide variety of facts, analyses and opinions, and it’s imperative that the public hear this exchange as well. But it’s just as important that lawmakers hear directly from constituents at the same time

Not only is the plan disastrous as described by doctors, hospitals, other providers, insurance companies and a wide array of lobbyists for older and sicker Americans, but Congress’ own non-partisan analytical office illustrates Trumpcare’s fatal flaws

The ban only serves to insult Muslim Americans, and Muslims all over the world, and further inflame psychologically unstable and bigoted Americans who increasingly target all kinds of minorities for violence and bullying

The immediate problem isn’t exactly that the state is critically short of money. Colorado has some cash, but a minority of Republican state officials won’t let the state spend it. It’s tied up in a inane argument over how to classify Colorado’s Hospital Provider Fees and the state’s notoriously cumbersome so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights. It’s a complex problem not easily explained, prompting most of the public to look the other way